[See NewsBusters for more.] The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the country hard and unfortunately it has hurt some portions of the population disproportionately harder than others. The virus has claimed the lives of ethnic minorities at a disproportionate rate, but the reason as to why is subject to multiple explanations, so it was unfortunate that Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. joined MSNBC Live on Friday to attribute everything to "structural racism."
Host Stephanie Ruhle began by asking Glaude, "tell me what this is doing to the African-American community. Small business owners, from a health perspective. People who don't have the liberty to socially distance."